Describe the applications of Web 2.0

1. MIS Project:
Chapter IV: Enabling Commerce
Using the Internet
Chapter V: Enhancing
Collaboration Using Web 2.0
Arminda Lisseth Reyes
ID: 5417658
Professor Eduardo Orozco
MIS/Fall 2015

2. INTRODUCTION
WEB 2.0
Nowadays, people are using
Web 2.0 in their daily
activities to enrich
interaction, sharing,
collaboration, and
communication among their
and companies or
organizations.
As a students and futures
workers, for us is important
to know what is Web 2.0 and
its applications.
The following report shows
different examples of these
applications

3. Technology Blogs
i. Mashable http://mashable.com/
 Mashable is a leading
source for news,
information & resources for
the Connected Generation.
Mashable reports on the
importance of digital
innovation and how it
empowers and inspires
people around the world.
Mashable's 22 million
monthly unique visitors and
13 million social media
followers have become one
of the most engaged digital
networks in the world.

4. Technology Blogs
ii. The Verge http://www.theverge.com/
 The Verge was founded in
2011 in partnership with Vox
Media, and covers the
intersection of technology,
science, art, and culture. Its
mission is to offer in-depth
reporting and long-form
feature stories, breaking news
coverage, product information,
and community content in a
unified and cohesive manner.
The site is powered by Vox
Media's Chorus platform, a
modern media stack built for
web-native news in the 21st
century

5. Technology Blogs
iii. MacRumors http://www.macrumors.com/
 MacRumors.com is a
website focused on Apple
news and rumors.
MacRumors attracts a
broad audience of both
consumers and
professionals interested in
the latest technologies and
products. The site also
boasts an active
community focused on
purchasing decisions and
technical aspects of the
iPhone, iPod and
Macintosh platforms.

6. Business/Financial Blogs
i. Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/
 Business Insider is a
fast-growing business
site with deep financial,
media, tech, and other
industry verticals. The
flagship vertical, Silicon
Alley Insider, launched
on July 19, 2007, led by
DoubleClick founders
Dwight Merriman and
Kevin Ryan and former
top-ranked Wall Street
analyst Henry Blodget.

7. Business/Financial Blogs
ii. Wall Street Journal Blogs http://blogs.wsj.com/
 Wall Street Journal
editors and reporters
provide real-time news
and analysis around the
clock on WSJ blogs, with
outside experts chosen
by the Journal also
contributing. Journal staff
edits the blog posts for
clarity and accuracy.

8. Business/Financial Blogs
iii. The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/
 It is a newspaper published
in the New York City by
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr,
and its distributed in the
Unites States and many
other countries. Since its
first Pulitzer Award in 1851
to 2012, the newspaper
has won 108 times. The
New York Times is a
newspaper which make
opinions and which many
lectors take as a reference.
The newspaper is printing
transcriptions of important
speeches.

9. Entertainment Blogs
i. BuzzFeed http://www.buzzfeed.com/
 BuzzFeed is the social
news and entertainment
company. BuzzFeed is
redefining online
advertising with its social,
content-driven publishing
technology. BuzzFeed
provides the most
shareable breaking news,
original reporting,
entertainment, and video
across the social web to its
global audience of more
than 200M.

10. Entertainment Blogs
ii. TMZ http://www.tmz.com/
 TMZ altered the
entertainment news
landscape by changing the
way the public gets its
news. Frequently
referenced by various
media, TMZ is one of the
most-cited entertainment
news sources, utilized by
national network and local
newsgathering
organizations across the
country. In 2006, Time
magazine named TMZ one
of the coolest websites.
Newsweek named TMZ the
“Breakout Blog of 2007.”

11. Entretainment Blogs
iii. People http://www.people.com/people/
 People is a weekly
American magazine of cele
brity and human-interest
stories, published by Time
Inc. With a readership of
46.6 million
adults, People has the
largest audience of any
American magazine.
People ’​s website,
People.com, focuses on
celebrity news and human
interest stories. In February
2015, the website broke a
new record: 72 million
unique visitors.

12. Research about web-based
collaboration tools
 GOOGLE DOCS  Google Docs is a
helpful and useful
collaboration tool.
Google Docs is a
document
management
platform that can be
used to host Web
sites that enables
shared workspaces
and integrates other
collaborative
applications such as
wikis and blogs.

14. LinkedIn
 LinkedIn is a connecting tools for
professionals. Help us to launched us to the
Job World with more than 300 Millions of
users.

17. Blog: Wordpress.com
https://enhancingcollaborationusingweb2.wordpress.c
om/2015/11/11/chapter-5-enhancing-collaboration-
using-web-2-0/

18. Conclusion
WEB 2.0
As a conclusion this project
resulted very important to
increase your knowledge. In
our daily life is important to
know how to Web 2.0 does
work and also its
applications.
My experience with this
project is that as a students
and future professionals is
essential to have a
connection with the digital
world.